I. NARRATIVE TENSES
Read the following short paragraph, and work out the order in which theguests arrived at the party.
By the time I got to Paula and Bob's party, Rob had left ages ago. Pat and Peter were late, as usual. Barbara and Tim had just arrived, and Simon, who'd been there for ages, was serving them with some things to nibble. Tony was already a bit tipsy, and was picking quarrels with anyone who'd listen. Apparently that's why Rob had left. He's hardly taken his coat off when Tony started going on at him, so he just upped and left. When Angela had seen Tony arriving, she told Simon to keep an eye on how much he had to drink. Angela had got there early to help Paula, and was busy in the kitchen. When I asked Jim and Chris what Tony had said to Rob, they couldn't tell me because they hadn't heard anything. They didn't even know that Rob had been there. They'd arrived soon after Simon, and had
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been stuck in conversation with Bob ever since. I opened the door to let in Alice, so she and I settled down for a good chat and a gossip about Pat and Peter before they arrived. All in all, it was quite a good party. Bob
| Pat and | Peter |
| Barbara | and Tim |
| Me | |
| Simon | |
| Tony | |
| Angela | |
| Jim and | Chris |
| Alice |
II. TENSE REVIEW
Put the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense.
1) A man whose cat (a)___________ (bite) by a dog (b)
____________ (look) for a box in which to take the cat to
the vet. The only box he could find was one which (c)
____________ (use) to store a frozen turkey. At the sur
gery, the vet (d)____________ (peer) closely at the large
label on the box: DEEP FROZEN TURKEY'.
'To be honest,' he remarked, shaking his head, 'I don't think there's much I can do about this.'
2) A man who (e)_____________ (know) for his mean
habits (f)_______,____ (go) shopping with his wife. As his
birthday (g) ___________________ (come) soon, she
(h) __________ (try) to buy him a card. She
(i)_____________ just___________ __(select) one when her
husband (j)_____________ (take) the card from her hands
and (k)____________ (read) the inscription inside. 'Thank
you, dear,' he said, putting the card back on the shelves.
3) An interesting thing happened when I was touring the
United States recently. I (1)_____________________ just
_______________ (read) a spy novel, where the hero (m)
_________ (hide) a letter in a particular statue in Washing-
_____
ton. Since I was in that city at the time, on a whim I decided to see if the statue really contained the small niche the author
(n) '______ (describe). To my great surprise it did and
a letter was inside. After a moment's hesitation, I pulled out
the letter and opened it. When I (o)__________ (read) it, I
burst out laughing. An unidentified reader (p)__________
(write): 'Good book, wasn't it?'
III. TENSE REVIEW
